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Saturday, December 25, 2010

Sweet Baked Goods

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The connect is "let them eat the cake"Rousseau mentioned the line in "Confessions"Mary Antoinette is wrongly said to have said it.Mary Theresea, wife of Louis XIV(hade to wiki it) had said it before Antoinette.

the connect is the phrase" let them eat cake".Jean jacques rousseau (Picture 1) attributes the first usage of this phrase by queen marie antoinette(pic 2) in response to the peasants not getting bread to eat. this reference is made in rousseaus book confessions. however historians claim that there is no particular reference to the name of the queen who uttered these words.infact the queens best selling english biographer LAdy antonia fraser attributes the first usage of this phrase to Marie theresa(pic 3) 100 years before marie antoinette allegedly invented this phrase.

Saturday, December 25, 2010

Sweet Baked Goods

8 comments:

The connect is "let them eat the cake"Rousseau mentioned the line in "Confessions"Mary Antoinette is wrongly said to have said it.Mary Theresea, wife of Louis XIV(hade to wiki it) had said it before Antoinette.

the connect is the phrase" let them eat cake".Jean jacques rousseau (Picture 1) attributes the first usage of this phrase by queen marie antoinette(pic 2) in response to the peasants not getting bread to eat. this reference is made in rousseaus book confessions. however historians claim that there is no particular reference to the name of the queen who uttered these words.infact the queens best selling english biographer LAdy antonia fraser attributes the first usage of this phrase to Marie theresa(pic 3) 100 years before marie antoinette allegedly invented this phrase.